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Daniel Henninger
Daniel Henninger is deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page.Subscribe to Daniel Henninger RSS Article Feed.
Recent Articles
- Why Fort Hood Really Happened - November 12, 2009
- The only good news out of the Fort Hood massacre is that U.S. electronic surveillance technology was able to pick up Major Hasan's phone calls to an al Qaeda-loving imam...
- Voters Are Desperate for Political Leadership - November 5, 2009
- Welcome to the permanent American tea party. You will recall how when the tea-party movement erupted during the congressional recess in August, it was spun on the left...
- Why Democrats Should Start to Sweat - October 29, 2009
- If you're an elected Democrat anywhere to the right of Barney Frank, and trying to defend a competitive seat next November, you've got to be starting to sweat. You wake...
- We're All Balloon Boys Now - October 22, 2009
- The "balloon boy" floating over Colorado last week got me thinking of the Obama photo-op airliner flying around lower Manhattan last April at 9/11 altitude. This is not...
- This Nobel is About Political Decadence - October 15, 2009
- So Donald Rumsfeld was right about Old Europe. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has taken it in the neck for awarding this year's Peace Prize to a nine-month old American...
- Obama, Dictators and Democrats - October 1, 2009
- In his Inaugural Address, President Obama spoke directly to the world's rogue nations. "[W]e will extend a hand," he said, "if you are willing to unclench your...
- Will ObamaCare Be Crammed Down Via Reconciliation? - September 24, 2009
- Delivering ObamaCare unto the world wasn't supposed to be this hard. Just how hard is obvious when the president of the United States does five Sunday talk shows of...
- The Left's 70 Year Battle for Universal Health Care - September 24, 2009
- Delivering ObamaCare unto the world wasn't supposed to be this hard. Just how hard is obvious when the president of the United States does five Sunday talk shows of...
- It's Still the Economy, Stupid - Wall Street Journal - September 10, 2009
- The War on Terror is Dead - August 27, 2009
- Shakespeare wrote, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." As we know, that didn't happen. Four hundred years later, they're killing us with the smothering...
- In Government We Trust? - August 20, 2009
- To explain why the Obama health-care proposal pitched the nation's politicians into town-hall hell, we would like to call to the stand an expert on how things in life...
- Obama: Salesman For the Superstate? - August 13, 2009
- Amid the hot town halls of August, one's mind keeps stumbling back to the astonishing presidential campaign of Barack Obama. Hadn't finished one term in the Senate, 47...
- Too Much Government: Why Obama May Fail - August 6, 2009
- A very long time ago, it was January. Barack Obama stood at the mountain top, bathed in the new light of a historic presidency and gazing down on a congressional lake...
- What is the Point of Obama's Speeches? - July 16, 2009
- Can Barack Obama talk his way onto Mount Rushmore? He might. In fact, if just half of what Mr. Obama has said that he, we or the world should do comes to pass, he's...
- 'Public Option': Son of Medicaid - Wall Street Journal - June 18, 2009
- In his speech on health care to the American Medical Association, President Obama explained why the U.S. has "failed" (yet again) to provide comprehensive reform that...
- Obama's America: Too Fat to Fail - June 4, 2009
- Studebaker, Nash-Kelvinator, Packard, Hudson, Stutz, Pierce-Arrow, Stanley, Checker and American Motors were once household names of the U.S. auto industry. Unlike...
- Earmark Nation - May 14, 2009
- In the year of our nation, 2005, "earmark," a term of trade known only to political technicians, became a household word. The Bridge to Nowhere, a mere outlay of $320...
- Pirates Vs. the Rest of Us - Wall Street Journal - April 16, 2009
- Will Islam Return Obama's 'Respect'? - Wall St Journal - April 9, 2009
- Today is Holy Thursday for Christians and the start of Passover for Jews. This week was an opportune time for President Barack Obama to visit Istanbul's Hagia Sophia,...
- The Obama Rosetta Stone - March 12, 2009
- As described in Mr. Obama's budget, these two economists have shown that by the end of 2004, the top 1% of taxpayers "took home" more than 22% of total national income....
- A Radical Presidency - February 26, 2009
- Barack Obama is proposing that the U.S. alter the relationship between the national government and private sector that was put in place by Ronald Reagan and largely...
- Obama's 'Hair of the Dog' Stimulus - February 19, 2009
- This, incidentally, is why Democratic economists claim to oppose using income-tax cuts to revive an economy. If one returns money to people in a large lump, as with a...
- What Is Congress Stimulating? - February 5, 2009
- Then after Tim Geithner scampered through the tax minefield and into a Cabinet seat, the Daschle tax bomb went off, laying open for public view the world of Washington's...
- The Geithner Exception - Wall Street Journal - January 29, 2009
- America Needs Its Frontier Spirit - December 4, 2008
- Every American absorbs the frontier experience from reading biographies of great Americans or from movies. Frederick Turner, however, made it clear that with this effort...
- The True Meaning of 'Historic Vote' - October 30, 2008
- The goal of Sen. Obama and the modern, "progressive" Democratic Party is to move the U.S. in the direction of Western Europe, the so-called German model and its "social...
- Hatin' Palin - October 23, 2008
- These rules have wasted the electorate's time the past three presidential elections, by filling the debates with such zero-support candidates as Dennis Kucinich, Mike...
- The Financial Crisis Is McCain's Katrina - October 16, 2008
- Call it Katrina Dysfunction Syndrome. The McCain camp should have seen the symptoms.On Wednesday Sept. 24, Mr. McCain announced he was suspending his presidential...
- Welcome to 'Moral Hazard' - October 2, 2008
- For behind it all sat Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, running mortgage liquidity into the nation's neighborhoods like an open fire hydrant. Several years ago, when the...
- Will McCain Waste Palin? - September 18, 2008
- Once Mr. McCain picked Mrs. Palin as his running mate, he demoted "experience" and elevated a government "reform" message. It was the right thing to do. Presidential...
- What's So Special About Sarah? - September 4, 2008
- When John McCain announced in Dayton, Ohio that his vice presidential running mate would be Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, he looked respectable but a little stiff -- a bit...
- Barack Obama: Leap of Faith - August 28, 2008
- Jimmy Carter, the previous holder of the most mysterious candidate title, served four years as a reform governor in Georgia. Bill Clinton, though little known beyond...
- Saddleback: The Inner Game of Politics - WSJ - August 21, 2008
- Putin's Rules, or Ours - August 14, 2008
- The New Russians now in Georgia are shaping a new world with rules based on the old Russian brutalisms. Their political instruments include the eternal silence of...
- Is John McCain Stupid? - Wall Street Journal - July 31, 2008
- Will Obama Let the Sunshine In? - July 10, 2008
- Thus spake Sen. Barack Obama, b. 1961:"There is no doubt that we represent the kind of change that Sen. Clinton cannot deliver on. And part of it is generational. Sen....
- The Politics of Can't-Possibly-Do - Wall Street Journal - July 4, 2008
- Is Sour News Good News for the Dems? - Wall St. Journal - June 26, 2008
- Sitting on an Ocean of Energy, Doing Nothing - WSJ - June 12, 2008
- Obama vs. McCain: Let's Get It On - Wall Street Journal - May 8, 2008